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Sixteen Inches

February 17, 2010
By Shtreimel
Sixteen Inches

“What do the scientists know?” Ari greeted me in the morning with a triumphant smile. “All the technology in the world, all the atheists with all their machines, and nothing. They can’t even predict…


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The Ex Thing

February 8, 2010
By Shtreimel
The Ex Thing

At first all we did was hang out with our own. Fellow Chasidim on the fringe, men only. We didn’t know many women, and those we did know weren’t like us at all. With…


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A Gitten Chodesh

January 16, 2010
By Shtreimel
A Gitten Chodesh

As if normal people get up early on weekends to mumble prayers to an invisible thing that listens at His discretion.
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The Fish and the Dybbuk

January 12, 2010
By Shtreimel

A few years after a fish talked in New Square thus proving that the God of Chasidim is the true one, another proof has surfaced. Rabbi Batzri is attempting to remove a…


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The Revolution of the Species

January 12, 2010
By Shtreimel

the Revolution. Nu? The one where the Goyim believe that all people were created by the monkeys.
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